A genuine Clint Eastwood flop, CITY HEAT paired him with Burt Reynolds. Eastwood played Prohibition cop Lieutenant Speer and Reynolds played private investigator Mike Murphy. Reynolds was nominated for a Razzie and said afterwards: "Ten days after shooting began, I knew I was going to take the fall. Clint was playing formula Clint that always worked for Clint. I was playing Jack Lemmon in this strange film where people were getting blown away. I never read a review of the film, because I knew I was going to get killed by the critics." The movie was an unhappy one for Reynolds, who suffered a broken jaw. In an interview for TV Guide, he recalled: "On the first day that I went to work on the movie City Heat, shooting the very first scene, I got hit in the head with a chair. When you choreograph stunts, it's like a dance routine. If anybody messes up the stunts, it can be a disaster. One guy who was in the scene wasn't a professional stuntman – I think he was a wrestler with an IQ of about eight. He was supposed to hit me with a balsa wood chair, but instead he picked up a wrought-iron chair and hit me on the head with it. It dropped me like a sack of potatoes. I started getting dizzy immediately, I could hardly walk, I felt nauseated. But I was fighting for my career; I didn't want to say anything about being hurt. Clint, who says about 15 words a year, saw me in pain later on, motioned to the assistant director, and said he was sick. 'Wrap it,' he said. So everybody went home. That's the Clint Eastwood nobody knows."